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tress - a word that is as common as your daily dose of tea/coffee, has become a hot topic in every conversation. Be it with a colleague, a chit-chat with your friend, a class meeting with the parents, a motivational speech - the word “stress” is always part of the conversation.
Stress is a natural feeling of not being able to cope with specific demands and events around us, making it very harmful for our health. So, in layman’s term, stress is something you feel when you think you cannot cope effectively in an alarming situation. Some examples that I can give to help you relate to this feeling are - project completion in a week, loss of a job, death of a loved one, grade 10 & 12 Board exams.
Now that we understand what “stress” is, we should also know what happens in the body when there’s stress. The actual scientific explanation states that there is a stress hormone known as cortisol that is released in the body when a person is anxious or agitated. Epinephrine and norepinephrine are 2 more hormones that get released along with cortisol. Once the person calms down, epinephrine and norepinephrine levels return to normal while cortisol levels can remain elevated over a longer period.
Now, with the information given above, it is easy to infer that weight gain during stress is a behavioral problem. How? One of the reasons could be that the high levels of cortisol send messages to the brain that there is less energy in the body, making people crave for junk food that results in weight gain.
Stress is a part of every person’s fast-paced modern lifestyle and hence, must be handled effectively.
Stay healthy, stay positive.
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